Two piece fit together glass scientific hookah bowl and water stem system for holding and burning hookah tobacco

ABSTRACT

This invention is a simplification of existing traditional hookah pipe function and is a new design eliminating the need for four or more existing component parts by condensing the function of these multiple component parts down into two interlocking glass composite parts. This invention simplifies assembly and disassembly, and cleaning of the main hookah pipe by having fewer and more accessible parts. This invention seals at the base of the inside of the bowl section and at the top of the ground joint section of the water stem to prevent the leakage of tobacco, smoke or other contaminates from entering into the main hookah pipe from the bottom of the hookah bowl. This product also allows an all glass product to be used in place of traditional mixture of parts and components made of various materials. It requires no other materials other than glass to perform the functions of sealing in and sealing out, hookah tobacco, smoke, from unwanted areas and containing these items in their desired locations.

The present invention relates to a two piece fit together glassscientific hookah bowl and water stem system for holding and burninghookah tobacco.

My invention, a “hookah bowl & stem system” uses borosilicate(oven/laboratory grade) glass and glass sealing ground joints toeliminate the need for multiple seals and multiple stems and grommetsthat are present on existing traditional hookah pipes. The water stem isinserted into the bowl section forming a complete functioning unit.

This invention accomplishes its function with two parts. The first partis the bowl section. The bowl section consist of a bowl shaped glass topsection fused together with a lower bowl section. This lower sectionconsists of a inner female ground joint surrounded by and encase in alarger male ground joint. The inner female ground joint is a receptaclefor the corresponding male ground joint located in the second part ofthe invention which is inserted into this inner ground joint providingan air and liquid tight seal. The outer larger male ground joint isinserted into a corresponding female ground joint located on the mainhookah body providing a liquid and air tight seal between this part andthe main hookah pipe.

The second part is essentially a glass down tube with 3 differentsections. The very top section of this part is a glass cone which formspart of the inner hookah bowl when inserted into the bowl section. Thisconical hollow top section extends upward towards the top of the bowlsection and allows smoke to travel downward through the hollow centersection of this piece and keeps hookah tobacco from falling into themain hookah pipe. The middle section is a tapered male ground joint thatfits into the corresponding female inner ground joint in the previouslydescribed bowl part above, when inserted, providing an air and liquidtight seal. The bottom section is a hollow down tube that will extendinto the water of the main hookah pipe, when in operation, allows smokeand air to travel through the length of this whole part and into thewater.

The device is comprised of the following:

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REFERENCE NUMBERS NAME OF PART

-   -   10. Hookah Bowl and Stem System is the overall invention    -   12. is the bowl assembly    -   14. is the stem assembly    -   16. is the bowl upper section    -   18. is the bowl inner female ground joint    -   20. is the bowl outer male ground joint    -   22. is the stem upper extension    -   24. is the stem male ground joint    -   26. is the stem down tube    -   28. is the stem air hole    -   30. are the smoke diffusion holes    -   32. is the Bottom Stem Hole    -   The overall invention 10 is a device designed to allow a human        person to use a hookah pipe to smoke hookah tobacco. It allows        the user a place or bowl in which to put hookah tobacco, so that        it may be smoked through a hookah pipe, smoking device or        apparatus. Its function is to combine the many bowl, grommets        and stem parts of a hookah pipe or smoking device into a compact        two piece unit. This system comes in two parts or assemblies,        the Bowl Assembly 12 and Stem Assembly 14. When Stem Assembly 14        is inserted and seated in Bowl Assembly 12 they form the        complete overall invention 10 such as in FIG. 1. This system has        a hollow core to allow an air/smoke mixture to pass its length        and enter into the hookah pipe. This system may be made of any        hard material that can be machine or formed, preferably        borosilicate glass, including but not limited to any type of        glass product, wood metal and plastic.    -   All of the elements of this design are essential to complete the        entire unit. Elements could be resized and adapted to different        sized hookah pipes or smoking apparatus to accommodate different        sizes of main pipes or to hold more or less hookah tobacco. This        resizing would not change the function or how the invention was        put together    -   It is the arrangement of the parts that is essential to making        this invention work and interlock the way it does. If the parts        were arranged in a different way then they would not fit        together and the Bowl Assembly 12 and the Stem Assembly 14 would        not be synergistic and integral to each other.

The entire overall invention 1 is composed of two assemblies. BowlAssembly 12 and Stem Assembly 14. Stem Assembly 14 is designed to fitinto Bowl Assembly 12 to form a complete unit. When these two assembliesare joined they compromise the complete components which allow tobaccostorage, combustion and smoke delivery to the main hookah, see FIG. 1.There is only one way to insert the Bowl Assembly 12 into the StemAssembly 14 to from a completed unit. The fusing of these individualparts could come form any bonding agent or buy melting parts or formingmaterials in any way to form a composite part consisting of theseelements in this specific alignment or arrangement with each other. Thisorder of arrangement of components and parts are what give this systemits simplicity and ease of assembly and disassembly.

The Bowl Assembly 12 is the upper section of this unit and has threemain parts, Bowl Upper Section 16, Bowl Inner Female Ground Joint 18 andBowl Outer Male Ground Joint 20 which are fused together to form onepart Bowl Assembly 12.

The Bowl Upper Section 16 is designed to hold tobacco when Stem Assembly14 is inserted into Bowl Inner Female Ground Joint 18 which is joined tothe base of this part. Bowl Upper Section 16 may vary in size anddimension to accommodate a larger or smaller hookah pipe, allow more orless airflow or more or less tobacco capacity.

The Bowl Inner Female Ground Joint 18 will accommodate the insertion ofthe Stem assembly 14. This part is fused at the base of Bowl UpperSection 16 and is encased in and fused with Bowl Outer Male Ground Joint20. It is a circular hollow female scientific ground joint with an innermachined ground surface designed to mate with a corresponding maleground joint in Stem Male Ground Joint 24 to form a air and liquid tightseal.

The overall invention 1 works by inserting the Stem Assembly 14 into theBowl Assembly 12 to form one complete unit and system. Once the twocomponents are joined together this device is ready to be used. Tobaccoor any other combustible smoking material can then be placed in BowlUpper Section 16 up to the top of the bowl. The tapered ground jointsystem in the base of the bowl which is the Bowl Inner Female GroundJoint 18 and Stem Male Ground Joint 24 prevent any leakage of materialsout of the bottom of the bowl section. The Stem Upper Extension 22 keepsthe smoking material from falling down through the center of the BowlUpper Section 4 and allows smoke to be drawn down through bottom stemhole 32 smoke diffusion holes 30.

Once the Bowl Assembly 12 and the Stem Assembly 14 are combined thenoverall invention 10 can then be placed onto the main hookah pipe orsmoking apparatus by inserting the tapered Bowl Outer Male Ground Joint20 into the corresponding female ground joint on the main hookah pipe.This joining provides an air and liquid tight seal that is necessary forthe completed hookah or smoking unit to work.

Once the Bowl Upper Section 16 is lighted from above with a combustionsource, by either fire, flame or heated coal, or other combustion sourcethen the smoking material is combusted and turned into smoke or smokevapor. The vacuuming action of a person or device drawing air throughthe main smoking pipe or hookah will draw the combusted smoke downthrough Stem Assembly 14 via top stem air hole 28. This smoke airmixture will be introduced into the water of the main hookah through theSmoke Diffusion Holes 30 or Bottom Stem Hole 32 or any combination ofthe afore mentioned holes.

Once the smoking or combustible material us used you can reverse theassembly process to separate the Bowl Assembly 12 and the Stem Assembly14 to facilitate cleaning and storage.

If made of glass the person would need knowledge and experience of howto cut, fuse, blow and shape glass parts together to make each element.The ground glass joints could be purchased directly but would need to beheated and fused to the other components to make the competed assemblypart. This would require some specialized training and experience withglass blowing and specialized lampworking equipment. Other materialswould require the expertise in the material medium that would allowthese different components to be put together in the same precise way toachieve the same function as in the glass product. They could be made byprecision forms or by other precise instruments capable of achieving thesame dimensions and seals as that the glass product would provide.

The components could be arranged in a different way to create a similardevice that could perform the same function, however this device wouldnot interlock in the same fashion as this invention. The Bowl Assembly12 could sit on top of a stem assembly scientific ground joint but itwould not be integral to the and part of the bowl assembly which wouldhold the tobacco or smoking substance but rather be 2 separate pieceswith two separate functions not related to or integral to each other.This relationship between parts would be similar to the existingtraditional hooking systems previously mentioned with each partproviding a separate function.

This invention would be used for smoking tobacco, hookah tobacco, herbsor any other smoking material.

The person using this invention would need to follow the followingsteps.

-   -   1. They would take the Stem Assembly 14 and insert the long        round Stem Down Tube 26 end through the center hole in middle of        Bowl Assembly 12, stopping only when Stem Male ground joint 20        is fully inserted into Bowl Inner Female Ground joint 18.    -   2. You could now take this completed part and insert it via the        Bowl Outer Male Ground joint 20 into the corresponding female        ground joint on the main hookah pipe or smoking apparatus.    -   3. The Bowl Upper Section 16 could then be filled with smoking        tobacco or other smoking substance.    -   4. To clean and remove after use you would reverse this process        by sliding the Stem Assembly 14 by pushing from the bottom Stem        Down Tube 26 and disengaging the Stem Male Ground Joint 24 from        the Bowl Inner Female Ground Joint 18 thus separating the two        assemblies. The Bowl Assembly 12 and the Stem Assembly 14 could        then be cleaned and stored separately.

This device could be used with any device which with a person or machinewould burn material or generate smoke. It could be used with any smokingmaterial or type or style of smoking apparatus regardless of the type ofmaterial that is burned.

The invention also could be used by any machine or person that needed tocombust a material that would need to be processed in a similar fashion.

The traditional current hookah system relies on fitting many componentstogether to achieve a single function. This traditional configuration ismore complex and requires each part to fit together to form anintegrated air tight unit which lessens the operational reliability ofthe hookah. It is more difficult assemble, disassemble, and clean andsanitize. It uses non durable dissimilar components such as rubber metalglass and clay to achieve an air tight system. These non durablecomponents are which are subject to failure and decay during normal useand could possibly contribute material contaminates into the smokingprocess.

1. A Two piece fit together glass scientific hookah bowl and water stemsystem for holding and burning hookah tobacco.